Pack the Essentials

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Pack the Essentials is a tile tesselating game, where you have a player mat with a grid that is a suitacase and you bid for different shaped pieces to fit into it. You can gain tokens that allow you to flip the pieces over to reveal cats for extra points. There are also other point-scoring conditions that change with each game. It's a fun version of this type of game (which I generally love) and I enjoyed it but it's not the best I've found in this genre (eg I preferred Zen Garden, which I played the day before).